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The History of Marriage
October 29, 1891 issue

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This article presents information on the book "The History of Human Marriage," by Edward Westermarck. The article attempts to explain how Westermarck's method of examining the subject of human marriage differs from that of his predecessors. They have in the main studied marriage as a purely human institution. Westermarck at the outset parts company with those who have pursued the subject in this way, and insists that to understand the origin of marriage, we must not stop within the limits of our own species, we must examine the habits of animals and see whether the germs of marriage are not to be found among them.

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HISTORY of Human Marriage, The (Book); WESTERMARCK, Edward; BOOKS; MARRIAGE; ANIMAL behavior; LOVE
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